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Lockdown savers pay off big chunks of mortgages but others struggle

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As the easing of lockdown apparoaches, Britain’s mortgage borrowers will rre-emerge from their homes with differing circumstances. Whilst some, dubbed lockdown savers, have financially benefited and saved during the pandemic, others have been compelled to use mortgage holidays. Some of the former set of borrowers have been paying off large chunks of their mortgages, while … Read more

Space: Charcoal-like chunks of rock taken from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu are revealed

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A small capsule containing asteroid soil samples that was dropped from 136,700 miles in space by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft landed as planned in the Australian Outback on Sunday, December 6.   A member of JAXA retrieves a capsule dropped by Hayabusa2 in Woomera, southern Australia WHAT IS THE HAYABUSA2 MISSION? Launched on December 3, 2014, the … Read more

Enormous A68a iceberg is pictured by the RAF as it breaks into city-sized chunks

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The enormous A68a iceberg which broke off from Antarctica in 2017 and has been drifting dangerously close to the island of South Georgia recently is starting to fall apart.  New images from the RAF show how fragments of the once largest iceberg in the world are breaking away from the main bulk of the berg.  … Read more

Enormous A68a iceberg is pictured by the RAF as it breaks into city-sized chunks

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The enormous A68a iceberg which broke off from Antarctica in 2017 and has been drifting dangerously close to the island of South Georgia recently is starting to fall apart.  New images from the RAF show how fragments of the once largest iceberg in the world are breaking away from the main bulk of the berg.  … Read more

NASA images of asteroid Bennu reveal ‘extremely bright’ chunks of another asteroid on the surface 

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NASA spotted pieces of asteroid Vesta ranging in size from five to 14 feet scattered across Bennu’s southern hemisphere and near its center. The boulders were detected in images from the OSIRIS-Rex and appear much brighter than the surrounding area of dark, rich carbon. The team analyzed the chunks using an on-board spectrometer and found … Read more

NASA images of asteroid Bennu reveal ‘extremely bright’ chunks of another asteroid on the surface 

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NASA spotted pieces of asteroid Vesta ranging in size from five to 14 feet scattered across Bennu’s southern hemisphere and near its center. The boulders were detected in images from the OSIRIS-Rex and appear much brighter than the surrounding area of dark, rich carbon. The team analyzed the chunks using an on-board spectrometer and found … Read more

Meteorite chunks worth up to £20,000 each fall on Brazil town

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Thousands of people have rushed to a remote Brazilian town after hundreds of chunks of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite began to fall ‘like rain’ from the sky.   As many as 200 fragments of the meteorite, which fell on August 19, have been found so far in Santa Filomena, northeastern Brazil.  The biggest weighed 40kg and … Read more

Meteorite chunks worth up to £20,000 each fall on Brazil town

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Thousands of people have rushed to a remote Brazilian town after hundreds of chunks of a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite began to fall ‘like rain’ from the sky.   As many as 200 fragments of the meteorite, which fell on August 19, have been found so far in Santa Filomena, northeastern Brazil.  The biggest weighed 40kg and … Read more

Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu may be chunks of the same giant space rock

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Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu that both orbit between Earth and Mars may be chunks of the same giant space rock that was smashed apart in a collision Mathematical modelling suggests a possible relationship between the asteroids Astronomers at University of Arizona and Laboratoire Lagrange made prediction But tests on samples from both rocks will be … Read more